A completely irrelevant example.

Only to someone without an ounce of intelligence.

I mean, they've got more population than two states. Why don't you think they should have as much pull as Wyoming?

This is about America, not some penal colony.

Learn some history champ, america WAS a penal colony.

The British used colonial North America as a penal colony through a system of indentured servitude. Merchants would transport the convicts and auction them off (for example) to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America and the majority landed in the Chesapeake Colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Transported convicts represented perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the 18th century. The colony of Georgia, for example, was first founded by James Edward Oglethorpe who originally intended to use prisoners taken largely from debtors' prison, creating a "Debtor's Colony," where the prisoners could learn trades and work off their debts. Even though this largely failed, the idea that the state began as a penal colony has persisted, both in popular history and local lore

This post was edited by Plaguefear on Oct 27 2020 08:53pm

You should learn some history. We weren't exiled in foreign lands because we couldn't behave. We willingly left.

Lol@ the quick edit in an attempt to prop that bs up.

This post was edited by Cannabist on Oct 27 2020 08:57pm

Except its factual, anything else?

I don't know to be honest. Perhaps there is a worry that DC would have too much influence on Maryland politics and they'd lose their identity. To me, that was the most sensible thing to do but it polls in the low 20s. Anyway, the reality is that Republicans would be hurt by this but I don't think that is a good enough reason to keep people disenfranchised.

Not like you hope it is.

Because unlike Wyoming the aggregation in DC has magnitudes more power and political pull over the entire nation. So to give these people even more government control seems counter democratic to me.



Lol disenfranchised. I forgot to shed a tear for the city that has the highest concentration of power per capita for not having two senators so they can have even more power.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Oct 27 2020 09:03pm